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title: Attention Brought to Stapleton Name
description: "NEWS: NYT: DSST: STP MS writing project about Stapleton's name highlighted in national news."
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# [Attention Brought to Stapleton Name](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/stapletons-candidacy-brings-attention-to-neighborhood-name)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 07/24/18

As a candidate for Colorado governor, Walker Stapleton has touted a distinguished biography: two terms as state treasurer, a business degree from Harvard and a long family history of public service.

But there is one aspect of his family’s past that Mr. Stapleton has largely avoided mentioning: His great-grandfather, Benjamin Stapleton, a five-time mayor of this city, was also a powerful member of the Ku Klux Klan, a bespectacled former judge who helped the group seize control of Colorado government in what is now considered one of the state’s darkest periods.

 

[Read the full story here.](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/us/colorado-governor-stapleton.html)

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